if power armor was so prevalent during the age of strife how

>>52407498
Same reason they're using tractors as tanks.

They don't have the logistical and manufacturing capabilities they used to due to the heresy destroying everything and lots of technology being lost forever due to demon viruses.

>>52407498
power armor is expensive

>>52407498
Power armor is a finite resource. Every time a suit gets destroyed it is gone forever. Plus, the Age of Strife armor isn't anywhere near as good as Space Marine stuff.

>>52407683
The mechanicus regularly produce new patterns of power armour

>>52407696
Precisely. The old patterns slowly phase out by attrition.

>>52407498
Actually my question is why the Guard don't all have carapace armor, casting plates of ceramite seems like it would be way easier than spinning whatever fiber flack armor is made of.

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>>52407498

>expensive to make millions more there weren't many more than 2 million space marines even at their height right?

>has to be specially fitted, rather than some flexibility with S/M/L sizes of flak armor. human don't live long after tailoring

>not as effective without implants

>overall bad return on investment

are these good points? I could would like to see more accomplished officers acquiring it though

The answer to any question is handwavy arbitrary lore invented to justify either whatever harebrained idea the writers want to shoehorn into the setting or the legacy cruft that has become too iconic to be retconned whole cloth.

>>52407762
>>52407498

Why do you need power armor ? Just give them same treatment Straken had.

>>52407791
The machanicus already does that, and keeps it to themselves for the most part.

>>52407498
imagine some number x, the largest number of suits of power armor that the imperium could manufacture and use with it's existing industry, infrastructure and resources.

Now imagine some number y, being the number of millitary-age citizens the imperium has to spare.

y is always, always, far larger than x.

>>52407498
Power armour was prevelant on Terra, not the rest of the galaxy.

>>52407738
Even nowadays composite spinning/weaving is much easier than ceramic casting trough.